Monday, 11 July 2016

We would love you to send us a postcard of what you are reading over the summer! It doesn’t matter where the post card is from, Bromley or Borneo, Luton or Las Vegas, as long as you tell us what you are reading. All entrants will have their postcard displayed and will win a prize!

Tuesday, 5 July 2016

Over 5 days, we gave 5 different teachers disposable cameras and asked them to take 5 pictures of their students reading! We had a great selection of readers from Year 7 to Year 13 and have created an amazing collage of all the photographs, which is on display outside the Discovery Library.

The students who were photographed received achievement points and the following 8 students were winners in the free prize draw:

Sunday, 3 July 2016

On Friday, 1 July, we commemorated the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, which was fought between July and November 1916. Described as one of the
defining events of the First World War, when the battle was halted more than 1
million Commonwealth, French and German soldiers had been wounded, captured or
killed. The War Memorial in the War Memorial Library at TRS is dedicated
to staff who gave their lives in the Great War.

Author JRR Tolkien was among those who took part in the
Somme. He was a signaller in the Lancashire Fusiliers and two of this best
friends were killed in the battle. His epic fantasy novel The Lord of the
Rings was inspired by his experiences at the Somme. You can borrow all
three volumes, The Fellowship of the Ring, Two Towers and Return of the King
from the Discovery Library.

Other great novels inspired by their author’s direct experience of
war, including Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway and All Quiet on the
Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, are available to borrow from the War Memorial Library.